Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-06-18
NO PEACE IN A PALACE.
ANGRY SCENES IN THE ROYAL
 HOUSEHOLD OF GERMANY.

HOUSEHOLD Cf GERMANY.
 The Empress Doesn't Get Along We'll
 with Her Husband, and She Detests
 the Crown Princess-Facts Not Gener-
 ally Known.
 When Emperor William receives a stranger he looks at him sharply and gives the impression that he is turning over in his mind whether the person before him would be more suitable as hussar, 8 cuirassier, a dragoon or @ mere infantry man. His face is wrinkled to an extraor dinary degree, and the look of the eyes is somewhat sad. But the face ightens up with kindly smile as the old gentleman gives military twist upward to his snow white 1nustaches. The emperor talks in short sentences. His conversation is of the brusque, stocky nature affected by old soldiers who prefer hearty shake of the hand to fine speeches.
 He used to be able to speak French pretty well, but has now almost forgotten it, only remembering few set ceremonial phrases, which he uses in addressing the French ambassador or ambassadress. English he still speaks correctly, having learned it thoroughly when, after the sad events of 184S he was forced to spend all most two years in England. The en- peror has never had any pretensions to be considered a man interested in science or art. Together with Prince Bismarck and Field Marshal Count Moltke, he takes pride in never having set his foot inside a museum or exhibition of pictures. The only French novel which he has ever read is the Wandering Jew" His table is covered with military pamphlets, and every week he glances through The Lon don Illustrated News, Graphic and The French Illustration. There is a certain kind of mysticism prevailing the old gentleman's manner and conversation. It is even discernible in the sympathetic tones of his voice. He ascribes every thing to Divine Providence. Nor must it be supposed for one instant that this is merely a figure of speech to be produced for the benefit of the public On the con- trary, his life shows that he is peryaded with the idea that in everything he is the mere instrument of the Almighty.
 AN ILL TEMPERED EMPRESS.
 Early in the morning, about 10 o'clock, the empress makes point of visiting the emperor in his study. This is the only time during the whole of the twenty-four hours when husband and wife see each other without witnesses. Of course noth- ing certain is known about their converse tion on these occasions, but presumably politics are not referred to. Since the fall of her favorite Count Arnim the empress has withdrawn from all interference in the affairs of the government, and has even become reconciled to her former own particular enemy, Prince Bismarck. It is somewhat amusing to know that the only newspaper which she reads is The Paris Temps, which she prefers to all others, even The Cologne Gazette. In the evening, toward 1C o'clock, the emperor makes his way uI stairs toward the empress tea table, where he invariably spends about twenty min utes to half an hour in gossiping with her and with her pet cronies, the Duke and Duchess of Sagan.
 He always maintains the most complete equanimity of temper, and if his wife is more than usually irritable he merely shrugs his shoulders with a smile and mutters something about her Russian blood, :" alluding, no doubt, to the fact o her being direct descendant of the crazy Emperor Paul of Russia. The subject which above all others forms the fayorit, topic of the empress conversation is tht K self and her daughter-in-1 law, the crow1 | Arineess, whom, notwithstanding all ap Fearances to the contrary, she most cor dially detests. Both the emperor and em press feel and believe that the moment tn, new sovereign succeeds to the throne mos of their old servants will be got rid of ant perhaps the whole policy of the empire changed. The empress is most bitter or the subject, and often asserts that wheI her husband dies she will take up hel quarters at Rome, since her life, not on1! at Berlin, but even anywhere else in Ger many, would be rendered perfectly impos sible by the new empress, whom she allude to as an alien with new tangled notions whose pernicious influence has already de | priyed her of the affection and respect o her only son. ''t- THE EMPERoR's SEVERITY. ~. | Meanwhile at the palace of the crowl